I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Essays entitled critical are epistles addressed to the public through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a cold, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.